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Pete Buttigieg Panic! at the Disco Dance refers to a viral video of a Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg supporter showing other supporters at the Nevada Day Parade a simple dance set to "High Hopes" by Panic! At The Disco. The dance was mocked by both Twitter users and TikTok users due to it cringey quality while many supporters of the candidate accepted it.

Origin

On October 29th, 2019, Twitter user @conor_mcconor posted a video of the dance with the caption "I taught everybody at the Nevada Day Parade the High Hopes dance. Study up, we’ll be doing it a lot!" (show below). The dance gained over 500 likes and 120 retweets in 16 days.

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On November 4th, Twitter user @KyleKulinski reposted the original video with the caption "Good god" which received over 11,000 likes and 1,400 retweets in 11 days (shown below).

Twitter user @Rested_Pizza responded to the post by saying, "Big Youth Pastor energy" which gained over 300 likes in 11 days.

On November 9th, 2019, TikTok user @ydsgay started a chain of videos in which people perform the dance while naming platform of his they disagree with (shown below, left). The video which called Buttigieg "Mayo Pete" was then eventually dueted by TikToker @smelleanor69 who advocated for Bernie Sanders (shown below, right).

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